Organic seal may also mean "Clone-free"

[shesulsa]

Associated Press - Updated: 5:48 p.m. PT Feb 2, 2007

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However, shoppers won’t be completely in the dark. To help them sort through meat and dairy products, one signal is the round, green USDA organic seal, says Caren Wilcox, who heads the Organic Trade Association.


While many people choose organic to avoid pesticides or antibiotics, Wilcox says the U.S. Department of Agriculture label also means clone-free.

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So ... do you care if your animal food supply comes from cloned animals?

 

[SFC JeffJ]

Heck, if it is less expensive and tastes just as good, I'll be all over it.

Jeff

 

[Blindside]

I don't care, as long as the animal is healthy, the food benefits are the same.

Incidentally, clonal production of food animals makes no economic sense. Natural births are far cheaper than trying to clone an animal that all it does is make milk or will become a steak.

Lamont

 

[SFC JeffJ]

I don't care, as long as the animal is healthy, the food benefits are the same.

Incidentally, clonal production of food animals makes no economic sense. Natural births are far cheaper than trying to clone an animal that all it does is make milk or will become a steak.

Lamont

I'm expecting in the next oh, 20 years, for the muscle tissue being cloned alone for meat and grown in industrial labs. Could be pretty tender and still lean that way. Be interesting to see.

Jeff

 

[Cryozombie]

Mmmm... cloned seal meat.
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